1. The Kurds and the Middle East
... the love of their culture and their family. They marry within their group to keep the tradition of their family or lineage, and also for future generations. Family is a big aspect in marriage, which we will discuss next. Family is an important aspect of culture throughout the entire world. Family ... of twenty years old and the girls are able to marry at the age of thirteen. Kurdish kin groups are based upon patrilineal descent. Several generations of one man's descendants through the male line constitute a lineage. Several such lineages make up a clan. It is known that all members of ......
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